In one sequence Red Skelton's character is trapped inside a house by a large dog. He escapes by removing the hinge pins from the door, picking up the door and, as the dog comes inside he holds the door between them and goes out. Red said that they had written themselves into a corner and could not come up with a way for him to get out. They were going to scrap the scene when the comedian Buster Keaton visited the set, took one look and told them how to do it.

The poem that Cass Timberlane recites at the picnic with Virginia is "First Fig" by Edna St. Vincent Millay and goes
"My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends
It gives a lovely light!"

2:16 PM -- Spencer Tracy Bio (1962) BW-4 mins,

Spencer Tracy's political views are disputed. Some sources state that he was an arch conservative during the 1930s, but his views moderated after he met Katharine Hepburn. Others say that he was always a moderate Democrat. He often said he believed actors had no place in politics.

In early 1947, Irene Dunne, Spencer Tracy and Robert Taylor were set to star.

4:30 PM -- Over The Andes (1943) TravelTalks short looks over the South American Andes mountains, and the S.A. west coast, and Rio de Janeiro.
Narrator: James A. FitzPatrick
C-9 mins,

The Andes is the longest continental mountain range, nearly 4300 miles long.

4:45 PM -- Key To The City (1950) Two mayors meet and fall in love during a convention in San Francisco.
Dir: George Sidney
Cast: Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Frank Morgan
BW-101 mins, TV-G, CC,

Dore Schary, the head of MGM, personally asked Loretta Young to be Clark Gable's costar even though he knew about the affair and love child (Judy Lewis ) between the two actors fifteen years earlier. She accepted because refusing would lead to more rumors than during their affair.

8:00 PM -- Son of Fury (1942) A young adventurer seeks his fortune in the South Seas so he can return to England and reclaim his birthright.
Dir: John Cromwell
Cast: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, George Sanders
BW-98 mins, TV-14,

This was the last film that Frances Farmer was in before her arrest in October, 1942 and jail and psychiatric commitments in both California and her home state of Washington that would last until 1950.

9:49 PM -- U.S. Army Air Force Band (1942) A patriotic wartime short showcasing the U.S. Army Air Force Band and famous military and patriotic songs played by the band interspersed with wartime footage of the Army Air Force.
Dir: Jean Negulesco
BW-10 mins,

The songs include "The Army Air Corps Song" (aka "Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder"), "(Shout! Wherever You May Be) I Am an American", "Polly Wolly Doodle", "His Honor", and "Man of the Hour".

February 14, 1954, CBS: This episode was an hour long tribute to help celebrate MGM's 30th anniversary. Lana Turner made a live appearance on the show and performed the "Madame Crematante" number (aka "A Great Lady Has An Interview") that Judy Garland had performed in 1946's "Ziegfeld Follies". Among the male singers/dancers featured were Steve Forrest, Edmund Purdom, and John Ericson.

Dedicated to realism, Bette Davis left the set when the makeup department outfitted her with dainty bandages for the hospital scene following the physical attack on her character by mobsters. She drove to her own doctor and instructed him to bandage her as he would a badly beaten woman. Returning to the set, she declared, "You shoot me this way, or not at all!" They did.

One night, while drunk, Barrymore accidentally went into a women's restroom, instead of a men's room, and proceeded to relieve his bladder in a potted plant. A woman standing nearby reminded him that the room was "for ladies exclusively." Turning around, his penis still exposed, Barrymore responded, "So, madam, is this. But every now and again, I'm compelled to run a little water through it." This incident later made its way, verbatim, into My Favorite Year (1982), where the Barrymore-inspired character of Alan Swann, played by Peter O'Toole, is involved in a similar situation.

The opening scene features Otto Kruger playing a Pinball Machine. This is the earliest known on-screen appearance of a Pinball Machine in a major production. At the time, flippers had not yet been invented and pinball machines were often used for gambling. There was a lot of public debate at the time as to whether pinball was a game of skill or chance, and it was banned in many parts of the country. The movie played on that debate with Kruger making a bet with his lady-friend, and when complimented for his luck, replies "Not luck - skill."